Metro Inc.
MRU.TO (TSX: MRU) TSXAt a glance
- Up 4.7% over the past year; the S&P/TSX Composite rose 20.0%.
- P/E 23.4 — lower than 46% of Consumer Defensive peers (35 companies).
- Market cap $20.80B; average daily dollar volume $59.4M over the past 3 months — High liquidity.
- Pays a 1.65% trailing dividend yield (as of 2026-11-12).
- No published plan for this ticker.
- 1-year volatility 18.8% (annualized); largest fall from a peak over the past year -13.3%.
Price chart
Split- and dividend-adjusted. All three lines are rebased to 100 at the start of the range, so the chart compares moves, not prices. L marks a LONG plan, S a SHORT plan — each links to that session's day page.
Monthly closes (table version, last 5 years)
| Month | Close |
|---|---|
| 2021-12 | 67.32 |
| 2022-01 | 67.99 |
| 2022-02 | 66.16 |
| 2022-03 | 71.96 |
| 2022-04 | 70.61 |
| 2022-05 | 69.86 |
| 2022-06 | 69.09 |
| 2022-07 | 70.91 |
| 2022-08 | 69.08 |
| 2022-09 | 69.17 |
| 2022-10 | 71.37 |
| 2022-11 | 77.36 |
| 2022-12 | 74.97 |
| 2023-01 | 72.22 |
| 2023-02 | 70.87 |
| 2023-03 | 74.34 |
| 2023-04 | 77.22 |
| 2023-05 | 71.41 |
| 2023-06 | 74.82 |
| 2023-07 | 70.97 |
| 2023-08 | 69.64 |
| 2023-09 | 70.54 |
| 2023-10 | 70.44 |
| 2023-11 | 68.01 |
| 2023-12 | 68.59 |
| 2024-01 | 70.59 |
| 2024-02 | 73.48 |
| 2024-03 | 72.72 |
| 2024-04 | 70.42 |
| 2024-05 | 72.63 |
| 2024-06 | 75.79 |
| 2024-07 | 82.22 |
| 2024-08 | 84.66 |
| 2024-09 | 85.49 |
| 2024-10 | 82.69 |
| 2024-11 | 91.23 |
| 2024-12 | 90.15 |
| 2025-01 | 90.81 |
| 2025-02 | 95.72 |
| 2025-03 | 100.07 |
| 2025-04 | 106.24 |
| 2025-05 | 107.04 |
| 2025-06 | 106.97 |
| 2025-07 | 105.95 |
| 2025-08 | 98.44 |
| 2025-09 | 93.47 |
| 2025-10 | 93.49 |
| 2025-11 | 100.26 |
| 2025-12 | 98.79 |
| 2026-01 | 90.39 |
| 2026-02 | 97.19 |
| 2026-03 | 95.18 |
| 2026-04 | 91.06 |
| 2026-05 | 88.47 |
| 2026-06 | 90.68 |
| 2026-07 | 93.18 |
| 2026-08 | 88.02 |
| 2026-09 | 89.95 |
| 2026-10 | 97.04 |
| 2026-11 | 98.59 |
The Composite is proxied by XIU.TO (iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index ETF); the database holds no Composite index series. The sector fund is a fund, never the index.
Performance
Over the past year the stock is up 4.7% against +20.0% for the Composite — 15.3 points behind.
| Metric | 1W | 1M | 3M | 6M | YTD | 1Y | 3Y | 5Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock | -0.9% | +9.1% | +9.6% | +11.9% | -0.2% | +4.7% | +9.8% | +8.6% |
| Sector fund (XST.TO) | +0.8% | +9.1% | +3.7% | +11.4% | +8.7% | +17.0% | +15.5% | +12.6% |
| Composite (XIU.TO, proxy) | +1.8% | +2.8% | -0.1% | +9.4% | +16.1% | +20.0% | +22.0% | +10.5% |
| Difference vs Composite | -2.7% | +6.3% | +9.6% | +2.5% | -16.3% | -15.3% | -12.2% | -1.9% |
3Y and 5Y are annualized from 3Y. The Composite is proxied by XIU.TO; the sector fund is iShares S&P/TSX Capped Consumer Staples Index ETF (XST.TO).
Risk and trading
1-year volatility +18.8% (annualized); largest fall from a peak -13.3% (Dec 1, 2025 to May 26, 2026); beta 0.23 against the Composite (2Y weekly).
| Volatility (1Y, annualized) | +18.8% |
| Maximum drawdown (1Y) | -13.3% (Dec 1, 2025 to May 26, 2026) |
| Beta (2Y weekly, vs Composite) | 0.23 |
| Average daily volume (3M) | 644,838 |
| Dollar volume (3M, average per day) | $59.4M |
| Liquidity | High (High: $1M or more a day; Moderate: $100K or more; Low: under $100K, by average daily dollar volume.) |
Valuation
P/E 23.4 — lower than 46% of Consumer Defensive peers (35 companies). The sector median P/E is 22.0.
| Multiple | Value | Against sector peers |
|---|---|---|
| P/E (TTM) | 23.4 | Lower than 46% of peers (35 companies; median 22.0) |
| Earnings yield | 4.27% | — |
| P/B | 2.96 | Lower than 34% of peers (35 companies; median 2.24) |
| P/S | Not available: Not available — needs TTM revenue; see financials. | — |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.0 | Lower than 17% of peers (23 companies; median 10.0) |
| Dividend yield | 1.65% | — |
| Payout ratio | Not available: Not available — no stored dividend history yet. | — |
Each multiple is shown against the sector median of the pages' universe as a percentile: "lower than 25% of peers" means the value sits below 25% of them. Valuation multiples are from the Nov 12, 2026 snapshot, and are always printed with that date.
More: dividend rate and earnings yield
Dividend rate: 1.63. Earnings yield is earnings per share divided by price — the inverse of P/E.
Financials
Revenue $22.01B in 2025 (TTM $22.48B); net income $1.02B; free cash flow $1.21B. Reporting currency: CAD.
| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | TTM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $18.89B | $20.72B | $21.22B | $22.01B | $22.48B |
| Gross margin | 20.0% | 19.7% | 19.7% | 19.9% | — |
| Net income | $846.1M | $1.01B | $928.8M | $1.02B | $899.1M |
| Free cash flow | $840.4M | $883.6M | $1.10B | $1.21B | $1.12B |
| Diluted shares | 236,594,000 | 228,653,000 | 222,414,000 | 214,748,000 | — |
Revenue by year
Free cash flow by year
| Cash | $67.3M |
| Total debt | $4.60B |
| Debt-to-equity | 0.65 |
| Operating margin (latest snapshot, Nov 12, 2026) | 6.3% |
Figures as reported in stored financials; reporting currency CAD. Operating margin is not stored per year, so the latest snapshot value is shown. TTM covers 2025-09-30, 2025-12-31, 2026-03-31, 2026-06-30.
Dividends and splits
Pays a 1.65% trailing dividend yield (as of Nov 12, 2026). No splits on record.
| Year | Dividend per share |
|---|---|
| Not available: No stored dividend history yet. | |
Trailing yield 1.65% is the stored key-stats snapshot value (as of Nov 12, 2026) — the dividend history itself is not stored yet, so no history table is shown.
| Date | Action | Ratio |
|---|---|---|
| Not available: No splits on record for this ticker. | ||
Next ex-dividend date: Not available: No stored ex-dividend dates for equities. Prices on the chart are split- and dividend-adjusted (no splits on record, so nothing to adjust).
Ownership and dilution
Insiders bought 0 times and sold 2 times in the 90 days to Nov 12, 2026. Shares outstanding fell 3.4% over 1 year.
| Insider buys (90 days) | 0 |
| Insider sell (90 days) | 2 |
| Shares outstanding change (1Y) | -3.4% |
| Shares outstanding change (3Y) | -9.2% |
| Held by insiders | 0.16% |
| Held by institutions | 46.56% |
Counts are by filing date. Holdings are from the key-stats snapshot (as of Nov 12, 2026).
Recent insider trades (10)
| Filing date | Type | Name | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2026 | OTHER | BOIVIN (PIERRE) | 24 | 65.22 | $2K |
| Sep 8, 2026 | OTHER | RIVET, SIMON | 2,650 | 41.31 | $109K |
| Sep 8, 2026 | SELL | RIVET, SIMON | 2,650 | 64.84 | $172K |
| Sep 4, 2026 | OTHER | TADROS (ALAIN) | 960 | 41.14 | $39K |
| Sep 4, 2026 | SELL | TADROS (ALAIN) | 960 | 65.24 | $63K |
| Aug 31, 2026 | OTHER | METRO INC. | 100,000 | 63.61 | $6.4M |
| Aug 27, 2026 | OTHER | METRO INC. | 100,000 | 64.63 | $6.5M |
| Aug 21, 2026 | OTHER | METRO INC. | 50,000 | 65.02 | $3.3M |
| Aug 18, 2026 | OTHER | METRO INC. | 50,000 | 62.47 | $3.1M |
| Aug 17, 2026 | OTHER | METRO INC. | 100,000 | 61.96 | $6.2M |
Peers
Peers in Consumer Defensive, by market cap: WMT.TO, COST.TO, PG.TO, ZYNS.TO, NSTL.TO, L.TO, DOL.TO, WN.TO.
| Ticker | Price | 1Y % | Market cap | P/E | EV/EBITDA | Div yield | 1Y vol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMT.TO | 52.44 | — | $1309.28B | 46.8 | — | — | +26.6% |
| COST.TO | 48.43 | +17.1% | $633.07B | 53.2 | 59.4 | 0.54% | +20.3% |
| PG.TO | 27.52 | — | $509.35B | 25.5 | — | — | +21.5% |
| ZYNS.TO | 27.00 | +24.7% | $422.13B | 29.3 | — | — | +29.1% |
| NSTL.TO | 26.14 | +9.6% | $113.38B | 871.3 | — | — | +22.6% |
| L.TO | 69.35 | +22.7% | $80.14B | 31.2 | 16.6 | 0.90% | +22.2% |
| DOL.TO | 220.42 | +16.7% | $59.15B | 44.3 | 33.6 | 0.21% | +25.3% |
| WN.TO | 111.30 | +29.0% | $41.66B | 45.4 | 10.0 | 1.16% | +21.2% |
Each row links to its own page when one exists. Peer 1Y returns and volatility use raw closes; peer splits are unadjusted.
analiti.ca history
No published plans for this ticker.
| Date | Side | Entry | Stop | First exit | Exits | Outcome (full ladder) | First exit | Hold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not available: No published plans for this ticker. | ||||||||
The full ladder is the headline method: 40/30/20% at the three exits, the last slice held to stop or end. First exit credits the whole position at the first exit level. Full history: the track record.
Superstock score
No Superstock score published for this ticker. The score is the published Superstock screen score — nothing else.
Sector condition: Consumer Defensive — Leading (as of Nov 5, 2026). Superstock screen.
Key dates
| Next earnings | Not available: No company release or exchange notice in the stored data — stored dates are Yahoo-sourced, so none is shown. |
| Last earnings | Aug 12, 2026 · EPS 1.24 |
| Next ex-dividend | Not available: No stored ex-dividend dates for equities. |
The next earnings date is shown only from the company's own release or an exchange notice, with a link. The stored last-earnings date is Yahoo-sourced.
Sources and data notes
| Block | Source | As of |
|---|---|---|
| prices, chart, performance, risk | daily_prices (Yahoo) | Nov 12, 2026 |
| valuation, market cap, ownership | yahoo_key_stats snapshot | Nov 12, 2026 |
| financials | financials (Yahoo) | Jun 30, 2026 |
| plans, resolutions | published entries-*.json + track-record.json | Nov 12, 2026 |
| insiders | insider_trades (SEDI filings) | Nov 12, 2026 |
| splits | Split inventory (interim table) | Nov 5, 2026 |
| sector condition | conditions-2026-11-05.json | Nov 5, 2026 |
| Superstock score | superstock_checks + superstock.json | Nov 12, 2026 |
Not available rules. A field older than its freshness limit shows "not available", never a stale number: prices, 3 trading days; fundamentals, 120 days after the fiscal period end plus 45 days. Valuation multiples are always printed with their snapshot date.
Data file: /data/t/MRU.TO.json · Markdown twin: /t/MRU.TO.md
Facts and published history only. Plans are generated by a quant model.